Just before opening night I said, out loud, to no one in particular, “I’m not even going to watch a single Bulls game this year.” They were going to be so bad, and all I’d read and heard was that the haul they got for Jimmy Butler was so...

The White Sox made a couple of late night moves to acquire former Cubs pitcher/wide receiver Jeff Samardzija and former Yankees closer David Robertson.Â So far, the Sox have been very active this offseason, picking up mostly a cast of mediocrities, so getting two...

Long before I was a fading blog star who wrote often (and then only occasionally, and now a little more often than occasionally) about the Cubs I was literally a world famous NBA writer who got paid to do it.Â I tell you this not to brag (because it was the late...

I’ll admit, even a big brain like me took a few seconds to figure out they were showing alternative futures. Â Can’t wait for Derrick to drop 70 on the Knicks and for the Bulls, and Warriors, and Clippers…and Heat to all win the title next year. This...

On NBA TV’s always great Open Court, the guys were talking about their pregame meals. Â Most of them were awful. Â Steve Smith ate a McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish before every game, and Charles Barkley–of course–ate two. Â Kenny Smith said Mark...

We got the answer to an ages old question this morning. What does the Chicago Tribune do when it needs someone to write a column that is so awful, pointless and just, plain, wrong that even David Haugh won’t write it? Ladies and (oh, who are we kidding…)...